Private institution that promotes the Spanish language and culture throughout the world. Study, learn and practice Spanish in the best entity dedicated to the teaching of the Cervantes language in Spain.

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Who we are

The Fundación para la Difusión de la Lengua y la Cultura Española (The Foundation for the Spanish Language) is a private institution created in Spain that deals with the promotion of the Spanish language and culture in non Spanish speaking countries and spreads the image of Castilla y León worldwide.

Spanish culture and language learning tools

In the following sections, the Fundación para la Difusión de la Lengua y la Cultura Española offers information and educational materials for all those who wish to use them in a generalised way and free of charge.

Learning tools

Focused on offering linguistic resources in Spanish, it contains all the words of Spanish in its database and offers a powerful search engine of words by various criteria, a rhyme maker for words, a dictionary with synonyms, antonyms, pseudo- synonyms and pseudo- antonyms, grammatical classification and syllabification in addition to a blog with linguistic curiosities about the Spanish.

In this section you will find tools, which can be found on the internet, to use in class, curiosities about Spanish, etc... We will upload them as we get them; If you have any files which you consider interesting for this section, please email them to hola@fundacionlengua.es

Color is a visual perception generated in the brain to interpret the neural signals sent by the eye retina's photoreceptors which in turn interpret and distinguish the different wavelengths that capture the visible part of the electromagnetic spectrum .

The story is a fictional character short story starring a handful of characters and a simple plot. However, the border between long story and short novel is not easy to draw. The story was originally transmitted orally (listening, reading);

This game will measure your memory. Several letters will appear each one has their partner. You rotate them to see what letter it is. When you find two matching cards, they will disappear. Find the pair of each letter.

How many scoops of ice cream will you be able to eat? Are you going to make the world's largest ice cream? Try fortune with this entertaining game to learn the numbers from 1 to 100 in Spanish. You know that for all these games you have to have your speakers on.

With this game you can review your knowloedge of varied Spanish language : it is important to acquire a rich vocabulary in Spanish to mantain a fluent conversation The appointed vocabulary is considered as basic for a Spanish student of A1 and A2.

In phonetics, a vowel or monoptongo is a sound of a natural language spoken pronounced with the vocal tract open, not having any increase of air pressure at any point above the glottis. This contrasts with consonants, where there is a blockage or closure at some point in the vocal tract. The vowels are considered syllabic, an open sound, but no syllabic, is called semivowel.

The alphabet, alphabet of a language or language is the ordered set its letters.. It is also the group with a particular order, of the graphs used to represent the language serving as a communication system.

Learn the syllables with this game. Each syllable is a phonological divisions in which a word is divided. It is the third lowest division of the spoken chain. (Traditionally it has been defined as "strike of voice" in a word, definition considered by linguists as obsolete and inoperable).

Puzzles in different areas of knowledge which will serve you to acquire vocabulary in Spanish. The anatomy of the human body, animals, art, calendar, food, holidays, numbers, the house, household items, transportation and verbs. Learn this vocabulary in an easy and intuitive way.

This project uses web 2.0 technology to develop a novel online learning experience. It consists of designing a multiplayer game that enhances collaborative learning concepts, procedures and attitudes required in different training subject, in this case module Third year of Secondary Education (ESO) for the subject of Social Sciences - Geography

This unit offers the students teaching contents on the EU to help them learning, practicing and consolidating the different aspects of communication such as assesing and argueing opinions, expanding vocabulary areas related to environment and health. In the area of ​​grammar the student's discourse will be enhanced through the use of connectors, such as, though, even, ...

This teaching unit will allow students to develop communication enough skills to talk about past events and how to express cause, consequence and opposition. You will also learn vocabulary related to media and historical events and that needed to create a report on the European Union with everything learned in the unit.

Throughout this unit students will learn how to talk about habits or expressing an opinion. You can start by using quantifiers such as 'everyone', 'most people' or by using constructs such as the verb 'soler' followed by the infinitive. At the end of the unit the students should make a survey on some European Union countries and discuss their results.

In this course you learn Spanish online from those semantic fields you interested in. In this Spanish course you can learn Spanish online in two ways. You can take the course following the logical sequence of lessons or choosing the lesson of your interest.
We suggest taking this course lesson by lesson if you learn Spanish for the first time. You can read texts and do exercises on those topics you are interested in. Choose the semantic field that you like by following the color codes you will find above. The grammar is explained mostly in the language you have chosen.